Anyone who has dabbled with SEO for sometime knows pretty well how important the back links are and their power to influence your search rankings. Almost all professional SEO s keep a tab on the links that they build for their clients and monitor them on regular  basis. While it is not much difficult to do it for smaller sites that has just started building links, it might be tedious if you are dealing with a website with few thousand backlinks or if you have too many clients for whom you need to check the backlink status. We have listed here a few tools that are extremely effective in checking backlinks and provides almost all the data that you might need to keep track of in order to run SEO campaign.

a) Link Survey
This tool by Antssoft lets you check link popularity for your website as well as for your competitor websites. All you will need to do is add the URL and the application will check on various search engines to get the backlink count for the URLs provided. The results can be exported in Excel or HTML format. This is available as a trial version and also for purchase.

b) Link Popularity Check
Similar to the one above, this tool checks the link popularity of your website on various search engines and compares it to other websites on the Internet. This is a Freeware and available for download

c) Link Popularity Analysis
This is an extremely useful software as it not only finds the links for your website, it also notes the Google PageRank for the links and also the anchor text used in them. This is one of the most crucial factors if you are building links for SEO. This tool can also help you to find potentian new link partners. This is sold in three different packages.